elinks seems to be unable of displaying UTF-8 (it's not available in the
encoding menu at least), which is very unfortunate in a UTF-8 locale
environment like is being installed by default in RHL 8.0. It would be great if
elinks could support UTF-8.

As a workaround, set character set to iso-8859-1 (or what you would
usually use), and run
LC_ALL=your-locale_without_utf8 luit links
You get only 256 characters, but it works about as well as in RHL 7.3.